Thanks for Bookish First and Sourcebooks for providing this ARC! It will be published September 18th.
1/5 – DNF at 25%
I was super excited about this book and have been since hearing about it. So, when I saw it was up on Bookish First and I could redeem points to get it, I decided to go for it and get it. I mean, why not! It was a great opportunity!
Sadly, the book wasn’t for me.
One thing I suggest is to not read the synopsis. It gives too much of the book away. Things that were just discovered where I was were in the synopsis, which ruined it for me since I was waiting for some explanation.
It also encompasses a genre I don’t like. Any guesses?
Magical realism.
It’s a mystery, but it’s also really fantastical (or sci-fi; who knows) in that there’s some kind of magic or technology system. And it’s never explained? It’s never clear what’s going on, what the reason is, or why I should care about it.
And that was the issue. I didn’t care.
I couldn’t care.
The characters were bland and forgettable. The only character I was excited about was Evelyn Hardcastle, but she’s barely on the page for a book titled after her. It’d be like if Evelyn Hugo wasn’t a huge character in The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
This required me to suspend my disbelief, something I don’t do well with books set in a world that’s basically ours. I also hate magic systems that have no explanation. Combine both those things and I knew it wasn’t going to be for me. And I picked it up with the intent to read it and I found that I seriously couldn’t be bothered.
Sadly, a DNF for me.
1/5 – DNF at 25%
I was super excited about this book and have been since hearing about it. So, when I saw it was up on Bookish First and I could redeem points to get it, I decided to go for it and get it. I mean, why not! It was a great opportunity!
Sadly, the book wasn’t for me.
One thing I suggest is to not read the synopsis. It gives too much of the book away. Things that were just discovered where I was were in the synopsis, which ruined it for me since I was waiting for some explanation.
It also encompasses a genre I don’t like. Any guesses?
Magical realism.
It’s a mystery, but it’s also really fantastical (or sci-fi; who knows) in that there’s some kind of magic or technology system. And it’s never explained? It’s never clear what’s going on, what the reason is, or why I should care about it.
And that was the issue. I didn’t care.
I couldn’t care.
The characters were bland and forgettable. The only character I was excited about was Evelyn Hardcastle, but she’s barely on the page for a book titled after her. It’d be like if Evelyn Hugo wasn’t a huge character in The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
This required me to suspend my disbelief, something I don’t do well with books set in a world that’s basically ours. I also hate magic systems that have no explanation. Combine both those things and I knew it wasn’t going to be for me. And I picked it up with the intent to read it and I found that I seriously couldn’t be bothered.
Sadly, a DNF for me.